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A Way to Improve Earning Qmendations?
captainrevo1
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Next year, unless metrics suggest otherwise, they have said Qmendations are coming back. So if they are here to stay then I would want to find ways to make the whole process more fun.
Now I have no problem with doing a little work myself for them but I will freely admit I hate the Q shell game thing. I will do it, but I'm hardly having fun while I'm doing it.
So my suggestion is for next year (or hell this year if its not that hard to change) add the Qmendations to all of the PVE events and dailies (while keeping the academy one there too). You can still only get 40 per day, so it will still get people logging into the game, but you get to choose what mission you want to play, coupled with earning the normal rewards that come with it anyway. The FE in question could also have 40 attached for replays so if people just enjoy replaying the mission then let them.
Grind is only a grind in your mind, and with the ability to play a different mission every single day, or whatever ones you find fun, then that grind is more much enjoyable. There is nothing vital about that Academy mission that requires it to be that one mission. It actually makes more sense that you are doing work for your respective organisation that chasing Q around a park.
It wont fix it for everyone, and I'm sure some will still hate it no matter what but I think this is a good way to at least make it better.
Now I have no problem with doing a little work myself for them but I will freely admit I hate the Q shell game thing. I will do it, but I'm hardly having fun while I'm doing it.
So my suggestion is for next year (or hell this year if its not that hard to change) add the Qmendations to all of the PVE events and dailies (while keeping the academy one there too). You can still only get 40 per day, so it will still get people logging into the game, but you get to choose what mission you want to play, coupled with earning the normal rewards that come with it anyway. The FE in question could also have 40 attached for replays so if people just enjoy replaying the mission then let them.
Grind is only a grind in your mind, and with the ability to play a different mission every single day, or whatever ones you find fun, then that grind is more much enjoyable. There is nothing vital about that Academy mission that requires it to be that one mission. It actually makes more sense that you are doing work for your respective organisation that chasing Q around a park.
It wont fix it for everyone, and I'm sure some will still hate it no matter what but I think this is a good way to at least make it better.
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*Yes I am aware that these missions are still in the game. But do we have a reason to actually play them again?
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Its no different to LotRO's festival events. There you do dailies to collect tokens for a variety of things. In fact, the LotRO anniversary event coming up on two years ago was made up entirely of one exceedingly monotonous quest, and you had to run it around 200 times to get enough tokens to buy everything. It was solely responsible for me taking a few months off playing.
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Make the anniversary event pay out 1000 of the things. Boom. Consider them improved.
I did not mind running FE missions over and over again during the lobi event last year because a) the rewards were worth it, and b) I could play differerent missions, with different alts, and recieve the same awards. That was brilliant.
I'm always in favor of more exploration and less warfare, so anything that would expand on that system or give me a reason to run exploration quests I'd also enjoy.
I can tell you what won't be coming back; Me.
My suggestion would be that instead of Risian Pearls, Q Photos and Qmendations, roll them all into one currency so that you can use leftovers from previous events in subsequent events. Or remove the grind altogether and make gifts gifts.
You say 'only' like it's nothing. Even for one character that still requires a fair bit of money to be spent and many people have more than one character. it would become very expensive to sort several characters out.
many people wont spend any money, and thats fine, so if they are going to have to grind then adding more ways to do that cant be a bad thing.
You're paying $70.00 USD for a single-character unlock of what is supposed to be (and proclaimed to be) a FREE REWARD ship!
Oh, and it gets better! You then have to sped $50 more in a month to get the z-store versions! And despite it being THE SAME SHIP if you have alts in rom/kdf you have to spend $50 MORE for each faction!
That's $360 for 3 toons, one fed one kdf one rom, for what is being blasted repeatedly as a free reward to thank us for helping the game last 4 years.
Honestly at this rate I hope it never sees a 5th anniversary.
EDIT: Dollar to zen may be $1/100z, but that's still $300 for what should be free.
Which according to that math means you only need to spend about 7000 Zen to open no more than 57 lockboxes at 4 lobi each.
Personally, I don't want to pay $70 for a free ship.
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You know what makes the grind a grind? When you need to do something that you don't like and it's not fun many times over a short period of time. Like this miniQ shell game.
I'd rather play a different foundry mission each day for this or any Star Trek content that makes sense to me and it's fun for that matter. The miniQ game is just silly and boring.
This is the hallmark of insidious F2P design: obfuscate the true cost by using a bunch of "virtual" currencies. The more currencies in a game, the harder it is to quantify their value in real dollars.
You're still actually working for the ship but this would help cut down on the grind time quite a bit.